Sawing-machine



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W. T. MOQR E 8: G. R. JACKSON.

SAWING MACHINE Patented Nov. 6, 1883.

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WILLIAM T. MOORE AND GEORGE B. JACKSON, OF BIOHVIEW; SAID JACK- SONASSIGNOB TO CONRAD J. GEIGER AND OHAUNCEY B. GEIGER, OF

ASHLEY, ILLINOIS.

SAWING-MACHINE.

SZPECIFIOATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 287,951, dated November6, 1883.

7 Application filed April 9,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it mayyconcern:

Be it knownthat we, WILLIAM T. MOORE and GEORGE E. JACKSON, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Richview, in the county of Vvashingtonand State of Illinois, have in vented certain new and usefulImprovements in SawingWIachines; and we do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in, the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to lettersor figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification. i

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view of our machine, and Fig. 2 is atop view of the same.

This invention has relation to saws; and it consists in theconstructionand novel arrangement of devices hereinafter fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the claim appended.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the benchor frame, composed of two parallel beams, b 12, having a space, 0,between them. At the front end of this bench or frame, which is mountedon two inclined diverging legs, (I d, is pivoted an arm, 6, havingvertical perforations at its forward end for the reception of a spike ordog,

Toward the rear end of the bench a a vertical arm, 9, is bolted betweenthe beams I; b, and extends upward therefrom, to form at its upper endthe fulcrum for the hand-lever h,

i which is pivoted thereto bya bolt, This hand-lever his composed of twoparallel arms, k Is, one on each side of-the vertical arm between which,at each end, are pivoted downwardly-converging arms Z Z. connected attheir lower ends by short parallel bars m m, bolted thereto, betweenwhich, at their forward ends,

' is pivoted the saw-helve n, provided with the lateral flange 0 nearits forward end, and the perforation p, for the reception of a hook onthe lower end of a chain suspended from a hook, projecting from one ofthe beams 11, to

support the helve and saw in an elevated position while beingtransported from place to place. The saw 3 is bolted to the helve orshank a in any substantial manner. Th e handlever 71. has also thehandle t bolted to one of the arms Z, so that by moving this handle upand down a reciprocating motion will be imparted to the saw." Aguidebook, a, is provided at one side of the pivoted arm 9, near itsforward end, to guide the saw before it forms the kerf in the log, thedog f being first driven into the log to be sawed.

W'e have found by actual experiment with this constructionof saw thatone man can accomplishwith case as much work as four men can do with thecrosscut-saws as ordinarily constructed.

Having thus fully described our invention,

what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The bench or frame a, composed of the horizontal parallel beams b I),mounted upon the diverging legs (Z- d, secured to said beams near theirrear ends, the vertical arm 5/, bolted between said beams b b, slightlyin front of the diverging legs (I d, and the arm 6, pivoted between thebeams b b at their forward ends, said arm 6 being perforated verticallyat its forward end, and provided with a removable dog, f, in combinationwith the hand-lever h t, pivoted to the upper end of the vertical arm 9,the downwardly-converging bars ll, pivoted at their upper ends betweenthe bars k k of the hand-lever and at their lower ends between theparallel bars m m, between theforward ends of which the saw-helve a ispivoted, and the saw 3, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence .of twowitnesses.

-WILLIAM T. MOORE. GEORGE ROBERT JACKSON.

Witnesses:

ELIJAH HUssnY, T. B. AFFLAIK.

